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Spiro Mounds (294 words) |
 | Spiro Mounds - Oklahoma's only archaeological park, is a 150-acre site encompassing 12 southern mounds which contain evidence of an Indian culture that occupied the site from 850 A.D. to 1450 A.D. The Mounds are considered one of the four most important prehistoric Indian sites east of the Rocky Mountains. |
| The Spiro chiefs controlled trade between the vast reaches of the plains and verdant southease woodlands. |
| Directions: Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center is located 2.5 miles east and 4.5 miles north of Spiro, Oklahoma on paved roads. |
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LostWorlds.org | Georgia : Etowah Indian Mounds- creek & cherokee indians (1835 words) |
| The Etowah Mounds complex consists of six earthen mounds all in the traditional Mississippian truncated pyramid shape. |
| These Indian mounds were built between 950 A.D. and 1450 A.D. although major construction didn't truly begin until around A.D. The Etowah Indian Mounds site is surrounded by a deep moat on three sides and the Etowah River on the fourth. |
| It rose 67 feet and was oriented to the cardinal points (as were the other mounds at the site.) The mound was probed with ground penetrating radar but nothing worth investigating was found and thus the mound has never been fully excavated. |
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